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Working for Godly Government, praying for national repentanceMon, 18 Feb 2019 16:36:33 +0000en-GBhourly126915315Darwin Day passes unnoticedhttps://www.christianvoice.org.uk/index.php/darwin-day-passes-unnoticed/
https://www.christianvoice.org.uk/index.php/darwin-day-passes-unnoticed/#commentsWed, 13 Feb 2019 16:43:38 +0000https://www.christianvoice.org.uk/?p=13913Tuesday 12th February was Darwin Day, not that anyone noticed. 31% don’t believe Darwin any more Except Jeremy Vine. He reported on his television show yesterday how many people simply do not believe his Theory of Evolution any more. That’s Darwin’s Theory, not Jeremy’s. Apparently, says the Daily Mirror, 31% of the UK population do …

31% don’t believe Darwin any more

Except Jeremy Vine. He reported on his television show yesterday how many people simply do not believe his Theory of Evolution any more. That’s Darwin’s Theory, not Jeremy’s. Apparently, says the Daily Mirror, 31% of the UK population do not believe all we see ‘just evolved’ Another 7% think Charles Darwin wrote ‘The Da Vince Code’.

And in 2009 the Daily Telegraph reported a clear majority of Brits, 51% to 40%, ‘agreed with the statement that “evolution alone is not enough to explain the complex structures of some living things, so the intervention of a designer is needed at key stages”.’

Charles Robert Darwin was born in Shrewsbury on 12th February 1809 and died on 19th April 1882. This year on‘Darwin Day’ he would have been 209. He published ‘On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life’ in 1859. Even that is 159 years ago.

Sciences like Genetics, Molecular Biology and Information Theory were unknown in Darwin’s day. We don’t do chronological snobbery here. We don’t think we are the cleverest people ever to have walked God’s earth. Nevertheless, Darwin’s tome really does look its age these days.

Musical dropped

Meanwhile, a few days before, the BBC reported on a school which has ‘axed a musical on evolution over its suggestive lyrics and portrayal of Christian views.’

Darwin Rocks, about the scientist Charles Darwin, was due to be performed by about 90 pupils at Hartford Manor Primary School, Cheshire, next month. The school said there had been six ‘expressions of concern’ by parents.

The musical’s publishers Musicline said it was written by a Christian, adding “we can’t ever recall having courted controversy before”.

According to its website, the production is a ‘light-hearted look’ at the work of Darwin.
Head teacher Simon Kidwell told the BBC that the school, in Hartford near Northwich, received the complaints over lyrics that refer to ‘bump and grind’ – a sexually suggestive dance move.

‘There were concerns about caricature,’ he said, adding the complainants, who include a science teacher from another school, felt its representation of Christian views on science ‘wasn’t accurate’.

Who is anti-science?

It has become fashionable to characterise the Christian or Biblical view that God created all there is as anti-science.

But in truth, as we find out more about the natural world, it’s not that simple. Those who hold the evolutionist view really do see it as a matter of faith. And more and more problems are arising.We reported a couple of years ago on the bio-energeticists who discovered that bacteria would never find the power to evolve into cells with a nucleus.

Evolutionists hold that bacteria were the first forms of life to evolve. But cells with a nucleus, ‘eukaryotic’ cells, are the building blocks of life. The poor bio-energeticists had to resort to contending some external force must have intervened. But that is ‘Deus ex machina’ by another name.

Nature is inter-connected

Creationists have long shown that certain animals, or even processes, have ‘irreducible complexity’. In other words, they simply could not evolve. Why have a stomach without a mouth and a means of evacuating waste? How did the bombardier beetle possibly evolve its extraordinary defence system? What happened to all the eggs while swallows were evolving the construction of their mud nests?

For this author, the complexity of nature and all the interconnecting strands and food chains say it all had to be in place at the same time. Flowers and their pollinators are just one obvious example. So to this engineer, a six-day creation makes sense.

Too many jobs in the biological sciences depend on the evolutionary faith-view for it to be dumped over-night. ‘Darwin Day’ might endure for a while longer. But a day is coming when those scientists will be found asking: ‘Lord, how did you Do that?’

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https://www.christianvoice.org.uk/index.php/parents-protest-againt-no-outsiders/#commentsThu, 07 Feb 2019 15:17:01 +0000https://www.christianvoice.org.uk/?p=13870STOP PRESS: Another protest arranged for Thursday 14th February 2019 8.15am to 9.00am. Parents outraged by homosexual propaganda in their school staged a mass protest this morning (07/02/19). Parkfield Community School The parents, whose children attend Parkfield Community School off the Alum Rock Road in Birmingham, object to indoctrination called ‘No Outsiders’. To cap it …

Parkfield Community School, where gay activist Andrew Moffat has been promoting No Outsiders

STOP PRESS: Another protest arranged for Thursday 14th February 2019 8.15am to 9.00am.

Parents outraged by homosexual propaganda in their school staged a mass protest this morning (07/02/19).

Parkfield Community School

The parents, whose children attend Parkfield Community School off the Alum Rock Road in Birmingham, object to indoctrination called ‘No Outsiders’. To cap it all, the author of that very programme is assistant head teacher in the school. Andrew Moffat, who is himself homosexual, has a history of activism in educational establishments.

Parents were encouraged by short speeches from some of their number. Meanwhile, a group of their children chanted ‘No to No Outsiders’ outside the school reception area. The protest was peaceful, but there was no disguising the anger felt. Many parents shared a sense of betrayal that teachers charged with the care of their children could so thoroughly abuse their trust. That Mr Moffat in particular has been pursuing his own special interest in pursuit of a divisive agenda has not passed notice.

Resigned from Chilwell Croft

It is not the first time Andrew Moffat has faced the anger of parents. In December 2013 he resigned as assistant head of Chilwell Croft primary school, also in Birmingham.

Andrew Moffat, author of No Outsiders and assistant head at Parkfield

Parents complained they did not want their children ‘learning it’s OK to be gay’. Andrew Moffat was a target for protests from mainly Muslim parents. He said some Christian parents had also complained.

His books include ‘Challenging Homophobia in Primary Schools’ (‘CHIPS’). They were used in literacy lessons for some of the 363 pupils at Chilwell Croft.

Mr Moffat told a newspaper: ‘I did come out at school in an assembly after a group of 11-year-olds held up a poster they made, with the heading “Gay is good”.’

Children would not make such a poster without direction from an activist teacher such as Mr Moffat.

Children ‘hear both views’

The Guardian reports Andrew Moffat moved smartly across town to Parkfield. With the backing of Hazel Pulley, the headteacher, Moffat went on to develop No Outsiders.

Astonishingly, Ms Pulley says she appointed Mr Moffat because she already knew about his gay campaigning. In fact, we understand she appointed him over the heads of a parents’ appointments committee. Ms Pulley was ‘particular impressed’ with ‘his work on improving pupil behaviour and on diversity’. She told the Guardian, ‘I thought his approach was admirable. We already had similar work going on at school but we needed someone to lead it and give all the staff confidence.’

In a revealing aside, she added: ‘Everyone knows we respect Islam here. One parent asked if he could not contradict what the school said. I told him that whatever parents said in the home was their decision but it’s lovely that the children will hear both views.’

No Outsiders programme

Muslim, Jewish and Christian parents do not consider it ‘lovely’ for their children to hear a view brazenly contradicting their own faith position that sodomy is sinful. Indeed, parents at Parkfield particularly objected to the sense of confusion that would arise if authority figures in the school came out with views at odds with those of their faith.

The Guardian also reveals No Outsiders encourages the reading of homosexual propaganda. Books being read by pupils at Parkfield include Mommy, Mama and Me and King & King. All are stories promoting same-sex relationships and gay marriages.

One review of No Outsiders in the Times Educational Supplement described it as ‘too advanced for 3-5 year olds. It seems like its promoting lgbt and forcing lgbt views on younger kids.’

One might say such propaganda is not appropriate at any age.

Make parent meetings ‘small’

Around 200 parents gathered in front of Parkfield school.

One parent at Parkfield wrote: ‘The school is promoting Mr Moffat’s personal beliefs and convictions about the universal acceptance of homosexuality as being normal and morally correct.’

The parent quotes him telling a website, ‘I specifically wanted to work in a school where there was a strong probability that I would face challenges to my LGBT equality work, so that I could learn from mistakes made in the past and find a way to get it right.’

His advice to fellow activists is: ‘Show your (sic) parents you are listening to worries while remaining clear and steadfast in your school’s equality ethos, backed up with policy and governor support. Hold parent meetings, but make them small so that you can engage in real dialogue and discussion without it becoming a Jerry Springer show.’

That fear of strongly-voiced objections may explain why Mr Moffat has refused to meet parents at Parkfield.

Plaudits

Nevertheless, the plaudits from creepy folk who want to teach other people’s children about sex won’t stop coming. The Independent writes that despite Andrew Moffat’s failure at Chilwell, despite parental outrage at Parkfield, ‘he is one of three British teachers shortlisted for the annual Varkey Foundation Global Teacher Prize’.

Happily, the Varkey Foundation Prize is under the patronage of a high-ranking Muslim ruler. Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum is Vice President and Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates. His Highness is also the Ruler of the Emirate of Dubai. He is unlikely to view a campaigning sodomite as a global example to other teachers and worthy of £1m.

Andrew Moffat was even awarded an MBE in 2017 for ‘services to equality and diversity in education’. He is that much of an Establishment hack and, yes, our Establishment is that corrupt.

Posters outside Parkfield speak about children’s safety. The truth is, children will not be safe at Parkfield while Andrew Moffat remains in post.

No support from MP or Councillors

Sadly, the parents can expect no support from their local MP or Councillors. Hodge Hill MP Liam Byrne (Labour) has posted a press release thoroughly supporting No Outsiders.

Councillors Mohammed Idrees (right) and Mariam Khan (centre)

Meanwhile, a local Labour councillor who responded to the story by saying ‘children are too young’ to learn about homosexuality and same-sex marriages in the classroom has done a complete about-turn.

In a statement reported in the Birmingham Mail, the Muslim councillor grovelled: ‘I have personally apologised to both the leader of the council and the Labour Group chief whip and have emailed an apology to all councillors. I also apologise to LGBT groups in Birmingham.’

Mr Idrees withdrew his support for his constituents just 48 hours after saying, ‘Children, for me, are too young to be learning about this … It’s not a good idea.’

His Alum Rock colleague, councillor Mariam Khan, has yet to comment. The next elections to Birmingham City Council will take place in 2022. Cllr Idrees will hope his constituents will have forgotten his lack of support and conviction by that time.

Community Relations

Andrew Moffat says he hopes No Outsiders ‘will reduce the potential for radicalisation of young people’. Now it is quite possible that comment is just a cynical piece of spin. However, if Mr Moffat genuinely believes such nonsense he is deluded as well as perverted.

His programme is overwhelmingly likely to do the exact opposite. No Outsiders will reinforce the impression among Muslims that Britain is decadent and overdue for judgment. That is a view shared by this ministry. Our answer, fully expressed on this website, is national repentance and a return to our Christian heritage. But an understandable Muslim reaction would be that the UK needs Islamic law.

We contend that Christian Voice did more for community relations this morning than any amount of gay indoctrination. This ministry put aside faith differences to support the parents and help protect their children. Furthermore, we promised to help the parents put an action plan together. Above all, we showed that not all British people accept the rampant secularism of the British Establishment and corrupt indoctrination like No Outsiders.

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]]>13770Open-Air Prayer at West Hamhttps://www.christianvoice.org.uk/index.php/open-air-prayer-at-west-ham/
https://www.christianvoice.org.uk/index.php/open-air-prayer-at-west-ham/#commentsThu, 31 Jan 2019 13:48:48 +0000http://www.christianvoice.org.uk/?p=9621There will be an open-air prayer meeting on Saturday 2nd February 2019 on the Greenway near West Ham overlooking the site of a radical Islamic group’s proposed ‘mega-mosque’. But our prayer will be wide-ranging, with the clock ticking towards ‘Brexit Day’ – 29th March. SatNav: E15 3ND (Click here for StreetMap) (And see below for …

The entrance to the Abbey Mills ‘mega mosque’ site near West Ham with the buildings in the background.

There will be an open-air prayer meeting on Saturday 2nd February 2019 on the Greenway near West Ham overlooking the site of a radical Islamic group’s proposed ‘mega-mosque’. But our prayer will be wide-ranging, with the clock ticking towards ‘Brexit Day’ – 29th March.

In December 2015 the Government refused the appeal of the Anjuman-E-Islahul-Mislimeen Trust against Newham Council’s decision not to grant them planning permission for the development, which would have become the largest place of worship in Britain. The Court of Appeal then refused to give them leave to seek a ‘Statutory Review’ of that decision.

Legally, Newham could now send in the bulldozers. But this decision will be taken by new mayor Rokhsana Fiaz. Miss Fiaz is of Pakistani Muslim heritage, but said to be socially liberal. One of her election promises, to ‘tax the value of development land to help our housing programme’ could impact the trustees of the Abbey Mills site.

What we shall pray

One option open to Tablighi Jammat is to put in a new planning application for mixed use and in the meantime remove the temporary mosque and stop using the site as a place of worship. However, TJ have now split in two, with one half controlling the UK HQ in Dewsbury, and the other half running the illegal Abbey Mills mosque site. So it looks like our prayers for confusing among the Lord’s enemies have been answered big time. Can the MM faction appeal now to the European Court of Human Rights to try to keep alive their dream of a megamosque in West Ham?

We shall pray TJ or what is left of it fail at the ECHR, that Newham Couincil takes real enforcement action, and that a church is built on the site. And while we are on the subject of big prayers, we’ll also be praying for our nation to return to God, keep his commandments and enter into the fullness of his blessings.

We’ll certainly be praying on Saturday for Christian freedom of speech and about Brexit and the issues surrounding that. There will be a free copy of the Christian Voice newsletter for whoever comes along. this month’s edition calls for prayer to protect home schoolers, to defend what is know as ‘gay conversion therapy’, and to resist government plans to make divorce totally ‘on demand’. But it’s open prayer, so we’ll pray into whatever the Lord lays on the hearts of those attending.

Our mission on site

We have been meeting for prayer at this site in West Ham every first Saturday in the month since January 2007. We have completed twelve full years – that’s 144 meetings to date! But we are not stopping until our nation repents and the site returns to the worship of the King of kings. We believe when we pray fervent prayers and do the simple things only we can do, we can rely on God to do the miraculous.

And that is what has happened. The West Ham mega-mosque has been under a curse ever since God’s people started praying. Why God uses our prayers and allows us to be part of his victory we shall never know. But we do know the Almighty has heard our prayers and dwelt in our praises and used the little things his people have done to his glory. Coming down to pray at the site itself in all weathers is certainly among those little things. It shows the Lord our prayer is serious!

So how has our Almighty King Jesus confounded the mega-mosque? Just look at the history:

The History

When we started praying in January 2007, the trustees were confident their proposed ‘mega-mosque’ would be built ready for the London Olympic Games in 2012. We kept turning up, every first Saturday in every month. The Olympics came and went, and there was no mega-mosque. We have kept on praying.

Confusion has reigned among the trustees, who went through three (we may have lost count) different firms of architects. They appointed and sacked public relations people and held a disaster of an ‘open day’. On the planning side they missed their deadlines and lost the support of Newham Council.

Meanwhile, the sect, known as Tablighi Jamaat, appealed against Newham’s refusal to grant them planning permission for the whole ‘mega-mosque’ project, according to the Standard’s later report. The appeal was heard as a public enquiry in June 2014 and the Secretary of State then ‘called in’ the decision. He refused the appeal in December 2015.

The sect went to law to seek ‘Statutory Review’ of the Government decision. In early May 2016 Mr Justice Ouseley said they had no grounds and refused them. They appealed that decision and lost in August. They are at the legal end of the road. But will the Council now take enforcement action before May this year? That is when the local elections take place. The elected members will not wish to upset Muslim voters before then. A lot could depend on who is selected and elected.

The Background

The Mosque would have been the size of Battersea Power Station, dominating the Abbey Mills area, according to the architect submitting the proposal. It would accommodate 12,000 devotees, becoming by a factor of four the largest place of worship in Britain. Crucially, it would also be the headquarters of Tablighi Jamaat.

The hardline Islamic group have been described by American security officials as a “recruiting ground for Al Qaeda”. French intelligence see them as an “antechamber of fundamentalism”.

It is by the grace of God that Newham Council, initially favourable to the mosque idea, are now determined to see the back of the group We also thank God for the decision of the Secretary of State and of the Courts.

But don’t forget, going back this was indeed a pre-reformation Christian settlement. The Abbey brothers spent time in prayer while they raised and grew all kinds of food. They fed the surrounding people with grain and bread, with vegetables and meat from their cattle, sheep and pigs. Names of streets, the DLR station (Abbey Road) and of the Victorian pumping house nearby all testify to the rich Christian heritage of this deeply spiritual site.

Directions for travel to West Ham

Praying on the Greenway with the site to the left and Channel Sea House in the background.

So come along to the next prayer meeting at West Ham: We gather on every first Saturday in the month from 10.30am to 12.30 pm. You will find us at the site where the Greenway pedestrian path crosses Canning Road. Aim for Channel Sea House at E15 3ND(Streetmap.co.uk).

If coming by rail, finish by taking the DLR from either Stratford or West Ham to Abbey Road. Turn right out of Abbey Road station, and left up Canning Road. We meet at the top on the left on the Greenway. It’s not that much of a walk from West Ham station either.

If coming by car, West Ham are NOT playing at home on Saturday 2nd so parking in the roads off Leywick Street E15 3DD is OK. Check on Newham Council’s website for ‘event day’ restricting parking. To drop people off at the site, aim for Channel Sea House at the end of Canning Road. SatNav for that and the site is E15 3ND. You can also approach from the A118 High Street.

Come along and be challenged and blessed

DO COME and stand up for Christ and be challenged and blessed! (Phil 1:27-29). The meeting is always a wonderful and peaceful time of fellowship, worship and seeking the Lord in prayer and in His word.

PRAY: For a good turn-out at this Saturday’s meeting with powerful prayer for our nation. Do pray that God will bless our nation with repentance. Pray that His enemies, whether Secularist or Islamic, will be converted to the cause of Christ. And pray their plans against the Lord will come to nothing before our holy and awesome God. Who is on the Lord’s side? Come along and stand with us! If you really cannot come, join us in prayer at home.

READ this on Christ’s sovereignty:

Isaiah 42:8 I am the LORD (YHWH): that is my name: and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images.

Philippians 2:5 Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: 6 Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: 7 But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: 8 And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. 9 Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name: 10 That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; 11 And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

1Corinthians 15:25 For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet.

READ this on prayer:

Jeremiah 29:7 And seek the peace of the city whither I have caused you to be carried away captives, and pray unto the LORD for it: for in the peace thereof shall ye have peace.

1Timothy 2:1 I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men; 2 For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty. 3 For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour; 4 Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth. 5 For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus; 6 Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time.

2Cor 10:5 Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;

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Wed, 30 Jan 2019 14:27:10 +0000https://www.christianvoice.org.uk/?p=1380625/1/2019 Parents SUE Facebook after it ‘deliberately duped’ children into spending thousands playing online games like Angry Birds and PetVille Council of Europe warns Britain sharia law conflicts with universal human rights and says it is ‘greatly concerned’ by its recognition in the UK Scotland unveils plans to become world leader in gender equality Transgender …

]]>13806Prayer answered, but we need repentance!https://www.christianvoice.org.uk/index.php/we-need-repentance-not-false-prophecies/
https://www.christianvoice.org.uk/index.php/we-need-repentance-not-false-prophecies/#commentsWed, 30 Jan 2019 12:31:59 +0000https://www.christianvoice.org.uk/?p=13748Here is the Hansard record of last night’s debate with the divisions. Our MPs received much prayer through this month, over the weekend and indeed as they met yesterday afternoon to vote on Brexit and amendments to the G+overnment plans. Some of the amendments the House voted against would have impeded or delayed Brexit, They …

Some of the amendments the House voted against would have impeded or delayed Brexit, They were all defeated by the grace of God. Remember to thank him for his grace and mercy and praise his holy name.

The only two which succeeded were Dame Caroline Spelman’s rejecting leaving without a deal and Sir Graham Brady’s, approving the May Deal without the hated Backstop.

Brexit next steps

So Mrs May is back off to Brussels with the Brady Amendment in her bag. She will tell the EU removing the Backstop is what Parliament wants. The EU have immediately said they will not renegotiate. But they would say that. As the clock ticks down to No Deal on 29th March 2019, despite the aspirations of Mrs Spelman and the House, they may well budge. Otherwise it’s No Deal, the default position. Pray for Mrs May to find favour with the Lord:

And to be frank, at some stage the UK will leave the EU. All the questions raised by supermarkets and farmers’ unions and industry about markets and supply chains and tariffs on imports from and exports to the EU will one way or another eventually have to faced. Moreover, our United Kingdom needs repentance, and that requires a heaven-sent leader. So keep praying!

Yesterday the BBC reported that Theresa May’s neutral motion was designed to allow discussion of next steps on Brexit. MPs tabled amendments. The Speaker decided on which amendments to select impartially, as we prayed, reminding the Lord of his word set out in scripture:

Lev 19:15 Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honour the person of the mighty: but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour.

Labour Front Bench amendment

The opposition’s amendment instructed the government to rule out what it refers to as a ‘disastrous No Deal’ scenario. It proposed an alternative Brexit deal involving Labour’s plan for a permanent customs union with Brussels and a version of the EU’s single market. Mr Corbyn’s amendment also proposed legislating to hold a public vote on either a deal or a proposition that had MPs’ support.

It was defeated by 327 votes to 296. ‘No Deal’ is of course the default scenario under the legislation on Article 50 which a huge majority of MPs voted for two years ago.

Lib Dem amendment

Once again, Mr Speaker did not select Mr Vince Cable’s amendment instructing the government to take steps to rule out ‘No Deal’ and to ‘prepare for a People’s Vote in which the public will have the option to remain in the European Union on the ballot paper’.

The BBC said: ‘The People’s Vote campaign for a fresh referendum on EU membership held back from tabling a similar amendment, saying it would not get the backing of a majority of MPs without Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn telling his party to back it.’

He did not, and it wasn’t called anyway, so that is an answer to prayer.

Yvette Cooper’s amendment

This was the big one. It demanded parliamentary time to pass a new law ruling out No Deal. The new law would also have required Theresa May to seek to postpone Brexit day (currently 29th March) until 31st December. That would all have come into effect if MPs do not approve a deal by 26th February.

Firstly, the prime minister would have to ask the EU 27 to agree to extend the two-year limit on Article 50. Secondly they would have to agree. Thirdly,. they will only do that if it looks like it might achieve something to benefit them. Fourthly, any extension past July will need the UK to hold elections to the European Parliament.

The amendment had the backing of senior Conservative backbenchers such as Nicky Morgan and Oliver Letwin, former Lib Dem health minister Norman Lamb and Plaid Cymru’s Ben Lake. Miss Cooper tabled it with Tory Remainer Nick Boles. It was the only amendment which would have bound the Government. Labour supported it. But it was lost by 23 votes. Dominic Grieve’s (The Grinch!) amendment calling for every Tuesday from now on to be Brexit debating day was rejected by 20 votes.

The successful amendments:

Amendment proposed: (i), at end, add
“and rejects the United Kingdom leaving the European Union without a Withdrawal Agreement and a Framework for the Future Relationship.”—(Dame Caroline Spelman.)
Ayes: 318 Noes: 310 Question accordingly agreed to.

Amendment proposed: (n), at end, add
“and requires the Northern Ireland backstop to be replaced with alternative arrangements to avoid a hard border; supports leaving the European Union with a deal and would therefore support the Withdrawal Agreement subject to this change.”—(Sir Graham Brady.)
Ayes: 317 Noes: 301 Question accordingly agreed to.

(At some stage we might analyse all the voting – but that’s a bigger project to be done right now!)

False positive prophecies

Finally, what of so-called prophecies claiming the world is going to flock to the UK as a paragon of progress and virtue once we leave the EU? Some of us need to see things from the point of view of the Lord Almighty. The way to do that is to get into his word, which is in the Holy Scriptures. There we see that God hates wickedness. It is that simple:

Hos 5:4 They will not frame their doings to turn unto their God: for the spirit of whoredoms is in the midst of them, and they have not known the LORD.

The UK is promoting the wickedness of sodomy, feminism, abortion and even transgenderism at home and around the world. The Department for Education promotes promiscuity and perversion to our nation’s children in England. In the devolved administrations it is just the same.

International wickedness

Our Foreign Office and the Department for International Development are pouring millions into pro-LGBT NGOs all over Africa and wherever else they can get a toe in. The EU also does that, but we led the way and we taught them. The Foreign Office started wars in Iraq and Syria and is responsible for massive loss of life and property, ruining people’s lives.

Jer 9:9 Shall I not visit them for these things? saith the LORD: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

Is the Almighty going to hold a nation such as ours up as a standard in opposition to his word? Really? The best we can say is that coming out of the revived Roman empire of the EU is an opportunity for national repentance. That on its own will be by the grace of God.

Psalm 106:47 Save us, O LORD our God, and gather us from among the heathen, to give thanks unto thy holy name, and to triumph in thy praise.

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]]>13844Prayer saves all in Prince Philip crashhttps://www.christianvoice.org.uk/index.php/prayer-saves-all-prince-philip-crash/
https://www.christianvoice.org.uk/index.php/prayer-saves-all-prince-philip-crash/#commentsFri, 18 Jan 2019 15:52:42 +0000https://www.christianvoice.org.uk/?p=13728Psalm 116:8 For thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from tears, and my feet from falling. 9 I will walk before the LORD in the land of the living. It’s good being a member of the Royal Family if for no other reason than this: All over the United Kingdom people are …

The aftermath of the crash involving Prince Philip. And those railings you can see could have a spiritual significance, as we reveal below.

Psalm 116:8 For thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from tears, and my feet from falling. 9 I will walk before the LORD in the land of the living.

It’s good being a member of the Royal Family if for no other reason than this: All over the United Kingdom people are praying for you.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh was involved in a car crash yesterday afternoon while turning right onto the A149 by the Queen’s Sandringham estate at the junction with the B1349.

All walked away

A Kia, coming round a bend on the A149 from the south, hit Prince Philip’s Land Rover Discovery in the side. The Discovery was sent rolling over by the impact. It ended up on its driver’s side in the verge. The Kia stayed on the road and finished its journey in the hedge right by the Land Rover.

The speed limit on the A149 is 60mph, as on every UK single-carriageway road. Norfolk Council have now voted to reduce the speed limit to 50mph.

Astonishingly, everyone walked away from the crash. Prince Philip and the other driver were both breath tested after the collision and gave negative readings.

According to Sky News, one Roy Warne was passing by and first helped the occupants of the Kia. They included a baby, unharmed in the rear seat. The baby’s mother sustained a cut to her knee while her passenger broke her wrist.

Prince Philip asked if anyone was hurt

Prince Philip, HRH Duke of Edinburgh, in the front seat of his Land Rover Discovery.

Mr Warne then went to the other car. He said he didn’t realise at first it was HRH inside the overturned Land Rover. He explained, ‘I told him to move one of his legs to make room for the other leg, and then I put my hands under his arms and helped ease him out backwards.

‘And then I saw his face.’

He went on, ‘It was a horrendous accident, it’s just amazing that nobody was seriously injured.’

Mr Warne, 75, added the Duke was ‘shaken up’ and was ‘asking if anyone was hurt’ after the crash.

Cars well built

We can thank God firstly for how well cars are built these days. There is so much wrong in our society, it is easy to forget how much good there is. Modern safety standards for vehicles is one of them.

The Coventry Evening Telegraph suggests Prince Philip’s Discovery may have been strengthened in a special facility. However, none of that applies to the Kia. Not so long ago, a small car hitting a large one head on would have crumpled to a pack of scrap metal, killing everyone on board.

But equally, for everyone to walk away after such a terrible collision can be seen as ‘amazing’ or as a miracle, depending on one’s point of view. And here is where the prayer comes in.

Prayers are heard

At our New Year with the Celtic Saints event just passed, we all prayed for the Queen and for the Royal Family twice a day. Our prayers were sometimes in our own words. At other times we prayed using the words in the Book of Common Prayer. Those prayers are not specifically for protection from perils, but ‘health and wealth’ and ‘to bless’ and ‘prosper’ include that, by the grace of God.

Moreover, all over the UK, when traditionalist Anglicans meet for Matins or Evensong, they pray these prayers. There may not be many such today, but it still happens. All that prayer is heard at the Throne of Grace.

So we can offer prayers of thanksgiving today for such a dramatic deliverance in answer to prayer. And if your church does not regularly pray for the Queen and her ministers, for the Royal Family and for all in authority, perhaps it should start.

1Tim 2:1 I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men; 2 For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.

The remains of Butler’s Cross stand at the junction where the accident occurred right opposite where the cars ended up.

Butler’s Cross

In what may be the grace of God, the junction where the crash occurred is marked by the remains of a medieval standing stone cross.

A website says it is now ‘consisting of the base and a fragment of the shaft, set on a modern plinth of stone and tile with a plaque and surrounded by remains of a rusty iron fence’. We can see the top of the railings, the ‘iron fence’ as they put it, in the crash photo above. The crash photo was taken from the very site of Butler’s Cross.

Crosses have traditionally been placed at cross-roads as way markers but for one additional reason above all: that the Lord of all mercies would protect travelers. The cross will have been erected with a service of prayers for that specific intention. Furthermore, perhaps prayer was afterwards wont to be made at the site. In any event, the cross heard them all. Do stones hear and remember? Yes, they do:

Josh 24:27 And Joshua said unto all the people, Behold, this stone shall be a witness unto us; for it hath heard all the words of the LORD which he spake unto us: it shall be therefore a witness unto you, lest ye deny your God.

Here are those Prayer-Book prayers:

A Prayer for the Queen’s Majesty.

O LORD, our heavenly Father, high and mighty, King of kings, Lord of lords, the only Ruler of princes, who dost from thy throne behold all the dwellers upon earth: Most heartily we beseech thee with thy favour to behold our most gracious Sovereign Lady, Queen ELIZABETH; and so replenish her with the grace of thy Holy Spirit, that she may alway incline to thy will, and walk in thy way. Endue her plenteously with heavenly gifts; grant her in health and wealth long to live; strengthen her that she may vanquish and overcome all her enemies; and finally after this life she may attain everlasting joy and felicity; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

A Prayer for the Royal Family.

ALMIGHTY God, the fountain of all goodness, we humbly beseech thee to bless Philip Duke of Edinburgh, Charles Prince of Wales, and all the Royal Family: Endue them with thy Holy Spirit; enrich them with thy heavenly grace; prosper them with all happiness; and bring them to thine everlasting kingdom; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

Psalm 20:1 The LORD hear thee in the day of trouble; the name of the God of Jacob defend thee;

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